To create the work I used a multipinhole technique. I designed a special camera obscura and interchangeable stencils which later made a book. I was able to work out the distribution of pinholes in such a precise way that their density made lighter and darker parts of the image, by more or less overlapping multiplications. The project consists of a number of rectangles, each of them is a 1:1 scan of photographic paper. The process of creating the work - time consuming punching stencils, exposing and developing – was important to me, and similar to climbing a great mountain, step by step. I choose the Matterhorn, which is considered the most beautiful mountain in the world, because it is a mountain symbol, an icon, showing nature as both beautiful and dangerous. This work is about searching for my own path in life and art, an attempt to merge into nature with which I am strongly connected, it is my self-portrait.

Dissimilar / Odpodobnienie

The project has been executed in a multi-pinhole technique. I wanted to make the placing of the pinholes a key factor in the construction of the picture. I managed to arrange pinholes in such a precise way, so that its density would create brighter and darker parts in the picture, thanks to higher or lower multiplication. One should look at the picture in two ways. From far it presents my portrait. From close-up it shows hundreds of tiny self-portraits that create the whole image. The project consist of two series – one in negative and one in positive. The first set is an original negative paper while the second one is a baryta contact print based on the first set. The work in negative is raw, while the contact sheets’ levels of light had been adjusted during the process. Fragmentary character results from technical specifications of pinhole photography. Because the work is bigger than my face, and consist of many pieces, exposing had to be done in batches. This portrait represents image of my person, but being affected by modularity and qualities of pinhole photography, it disturbs the similarity. Thus is places itself somewhere between sameness and otherness, between similarity and dissimilarity.

multipinhole matrix

one of original multi-pinhole paper negative.

one of original multi-pinhole paper negative.

one of original multi-pinhole paper negative.

detail, baryta contact print

Dissimilar

detail, baryta contact print

detail, baryta contact print

Winter sky / Niebo zimowe

multi-pinhole photography, 70 x 70 cm

Winter sky is a photographic project that experiment with the usage of camera obscura, and more precisely with the multiple-camera obscura in order to create unconventional family portrait. Holes are set in such fashion, so they are causing images that resembles various star constellations. My intention was, to use the features of the multiple-camera, in a way that they wil not only serve the simple multiplication of the image, but will be play an important role in the project as well. Photographed in this fashion, people close to me - friends and relatives - create theier own constellations in the sky.